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United States Added to List Of “Backsliding” Democracies for First Time
Monday’s report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, inclusion of the United States’ addition to the institute’s 2021 list of “backsliding democracies” comes as no surprise.
Contained in the report, ‘“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019,’ it said in its report titled ‘Global State of Democracy 2021.’”
However, for those of us old enough to remember the rise and fall of “McCarthyism”, which was rampant from 1950 to 1954, and the resurgence of young Americans’ political awareness during the 1960s and early 70s, this report out of Stockholm is about forty years late. In reality, democracy in the United States began “backsliding” in 1981 and slid at a constant rate for the next twenty years. The rate of “backsliding” took a big jump with the Presidential Election of 2000, and another in the days and weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks less than a year later.
But, our democracy developed a severe rot on January 21, 2017, and that decay grew much, much worse with the Big Lie preceding and following the 2020 Presidential Election and the January 6th insurrection.
With the trumpublicans attacks on voting rights in state legislatures across the country this year, coupled with Joe Manchin’s and Kyrsten Sinema’s invaluable assistance to the congressional trumpublicans’ goals, the 2022 Mid-term success of the trumpublicans’ fascist state replacing U.S. democracy is assured.
Adding speed to the nation’s democracy “backsliding” is the “dark money” able to buy influence in the USSC, the single branch of our government where political contributions are unwarranted and can be nothing other than bribery.
The “backsliding” of the United States’ democracy as described by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is not a recent phenomenon, it is a gross understatement.
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United States Added to List Of “Backsliding” Democracies for First Time
Monday’s report from the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, inclusion of the United States’ addition to the institute’s 2021 list of “backsliding democracies” comes as no surprise.
Contained in the report, ‘“This year we coded the United States as backsliding for the first time, but our data suggest that the backsliding episode began at least in 2019,’ it said in its report titled ‘Global State of Democracy 2021.’”
However, for those of us old enough to remember the rise and fall of “McCarthyism”, which was rampant from 1950 to 1954, and the resurgence of young Americans’ political awareness during the 1960s and early 70s, this report out of Stockholm is about forty years late. In reality, democracy in the United States began “backsliding” in 1981 and slid at a constant rate for the next twenty years. The rate of “backsliding” took a big jump with the Presidential Election of 2000, and another in the days and weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks less than a year later.
But, our democracy developed a severe rot on January 21, 2017, and that decay grew much, much worse with the Big Lie preceding and following the 2020 Presidential Election and the January 6th insurrection.
With the trumpublicans attacks on voting rights in state legislatures across the country this year, coupled with Joe Manchin’s and Kyrsten Sinema’s invaluable assistance to the congressional trumpublicans’ goals, the 2022 Mid-term success of the trumpublicans’ fascist state replacing U.S. democracy is assured.
Adding speed to the nation’s democracy “backsliding” is the “dark money” able to buy influence in the USSC, the single branch of our government where political contributions are unwarranted and can be nothing other than bribery.
The “backsliding” of the United States’ democracy as described by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is not a recent phenomenon, it is a gross understatement.
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